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It’s been 3 months since we got the first hint of a new Crackdown game at Microsoft’s Xbox One reveal in May. We’ve been waiting for an announcement ever since. Phil Spencer has now all but confirmed that he wants Crackdown 3 to happen, but he wants to find the right team to do it.

Eurogamer took the initiative to ask and got this response:

“When I think about the technology we’re putting into Xbox One specifically around some of the cloud functionality, there’s a real opportunity to take an open world game like Crackdown that allowed you to play with your friends, and roam to all corners of the city and still feel like you’re playing together.

“There’s a real neat opportunity to bring that genre and game forward onto the new generation.”

Spencer then intimated that Microsoft is looking for a new developer to work on Crackdown 3. The previous two games were both developed in Scotland by different teams, the first by now-defunct Realtime Worlds and the second by Ruffian Games. It seems that Spencer would like to find another UK-based team for a new entry.

“There was a nice UK sensibility to the way the game was developed. I think that’s important to the franchise as well.”

http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/22/crackdown-3-needs-the-right-team-says-spencer/



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The right team = anyone but Ruffian Games



So he basically confirmed its not being made.  Disappointing.



It pisses me off that they basically gave the impression it was being made when it's currently not.



I love gamers, they must be one of the most negative community ever, in the entertainment business at least....
when Devs, publisher or any big dog of the industry says something positive it is always PR blahblah, BS and all... with usually not much to back it up beside that for some reason companies are out like rabid dogs in heat to get their little nono hole with a 10 foot serrated blade...
but when it is something that is more "negative" or at least not positive their is no way it is a PR smoke screen to keep something under control and have a surprise at a later date....
oh well I'm pretty sure that if they have not a team already working on it in the dark, they are actively searching one, or building one....



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Guys who developed SR4. Best superhero game ever made that isn't even about superheroes.



foodfather said:
Guys who developed SR4. Best superhero game ever made that isn't even about superheroes.



SR4 ??? saint row 4???



one that works for peanuts?



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’